CMs CHANGE THE ARENA!!!

[hazed-]

what are you guys doing????? its been empty for 4 days..

surely even if we just change back to europe terrain for a short period whilst new maps are finished we would see more in there.

Ive offered before and i offer again if you need CM help ill volenteer my time.

leaving the map as it is is a sure fire way for interest to die off.

[Sabre]

Hazed, we appreciate the concern, and we'll hopefully have Stalingrad up Saturday morning.  Be patient...we're working on it.  Apparently we had some kind of server hiccup in there in the last 24 hours that dumped all the field and arena settings.  That should be fixed now, but I'm sure it didn't help today's or yesterday's attendance.

The CM terrain team is busting their tails to get some CT-friendly terrains finished.  Besides Stalingrad we have the Philippines, New Guinea/Solomons, and a cool Central Europe terrain coming down the pipe.  I know it doesn't eliminate your frustration, but hopefully it helps sooth it a tad.  As we get more terrains and set-ups built, we may consider shortening the rotation.

Keeping the CT populated is a marketing challenge, make no mistake.   We can't hope to overcome the gravity-well of the MA unless we offer something unique and challanging in the CT.  Just changing to one of the old terrains isn't enough.  Still, if it looks at all like Stalingrad won't be ready for this weekend, we'll still change the terrain and set up no later than Saturday.

[Buzzbait]

S! Hazed

Your complaint is what has been occupying my full attention for the last week and a half.

I can`t do anything until I get my terrain.  The Terrain guys are working as hard as they can to get them finished.  They are unpaid and do it on their own time.  LOT OF WORK INVOLVED.  

Try it if you are interested.  In particular I need a Murmansk convoy terrain for when 1.09 comes out so I can do a setup for the battles between the British on their escort Carriers, the Soviets in their Murmansk bases and the Germans in the Finnish and Norway bases.  I will expect it from u on March 31st so I can get it into the Arena after our Battle of Britain setup....   Don`t be late.  

When the Terrain guys finish them, the terrains have to be vetted by Ronni of HTC to make sure there are no bugs.  There were a number of bugs in the Stalingrad terrain.  The terrain guys are working with a new Editor which is not entirely familiar to them.  They are learning their craft all over again.  The Stalingrad terrain has been submitted to Ronni 3 different times.  And rejected 3 times.  Each time the terrain designer has to go back and carefully locate and fix the bug.  I don`t blame the Terrain designer.  He does excellent work.

Only after the map passes that hurdle can I then get together with Pyro and setup the Arena.

Look for a new setup this weekend if everything goes right.